-----Update----- 11/14/06
Yeah I threw him some more hints by signing my last email "I love Top Ramen and Floral Tape." I give up.

-----Update----- 11/7/06
I am still waiting for Spotlight to notice that I posted this and give his reactions/feedback. I asked him the other day if he wanted to collaborate on a task, mostly to get his attention to my profile but with no avail. He suggested a task. I responded and then concluded with "Oh, I have to go... my Ichiban noodles are done." Ichiban (below) are name of the fake Top Ramen I stuffed in his package with as well as the first name of the return address on his package.

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Sometimes I think I really am partly insane or slowing going insane but supposedly one of the ways you know that you are not insane is that you have some awareness that you might be.

So I created this package of random stuff from my old files and things I found around the house. Here are the contents:

1. An 8 X 10 printed illustration of a human digestive tract. I love pictures explaining how the body works and I printed this out about 4 years ago but I didn’t know what the heck to use it for.
2. A badly translated Asian envelope with weird text. I filled it with cat food and put a #2 key chain in it. It says "sample" on the back.
3. A small wood block with random calculations and ramblings of George Bush on the back.
4. Old Papers and receipts from 2003.
5. Four old pens and pencils
6. A tiny paper pad with a rubber band around it and one safety pin
7. A 37 cent stamp
8. A little yellow triangle
9. A page from a 1950’s Good Housekeeping magazine that gives instructions on how to properly freeze meat. I highlighted very random sentences and made notes about them on the bottom
10. A $.05 cent off coupon for two boxes of Jell-O. I wrote a little bit on it about when you “go back” to use the coupon because there is no expiration date.
11. An old touched up photo of my grandfather with some paranoid writings on the back that are half scribbled out. This is stapled to the random papers from #4.
12. A empty roll of scotch tape that I wound floral tape unto and the wrote "tape" on.

All this is wrapped in white tissue paper and put in an box that has electrical tape and more notes on it. I put this package in the box and packed it with Top Ramen-like noodles, smashed up. My cat, Poon, liked this part and started muching on the noodles... like she needs more carbs.

I cut holes in the box and wrapped it with plastic wrap so the noodles fall out but are still contained. I wrapped this with floral tape. Then I wrapped the whole thing in a brown paper bag with more electrical tape for that suspicious “Is this a bomb?” look.

In the middle of the packaging and collecting of all these items, I decided to send this package to “Spotless Skullshines.” He lives near me and we had an art class or two together in school so he knows my style. Not that this is typical of my art but I wonder if he will guess it’s me, I don’t think so.

So, I didn’t want to address it to my house since he might know where I live. Instead I addressed it to my parent’s house, which is about 45 minutes away. The name on the address was something like Ichiban Sapporo… the actual name of the fake top ramen I used in packaging. I sort of hope he will go to my parent’s house and harass them about it and try to make the connection. I am sure he will think about it.